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Sale or Transfer of a Family Business to Next Generation or Arm’s Length Purchaser - Presented by Robert Picard

Creative Use of Life Insurance in Family Business Buyouts - Presented by Mark Halpern

Lad Kucis to teach at Osgoode Professional Development Certificate Program

02/02/2015

Lad Kucis will be an instructor at the Osgoode Professional Development Certificate Program, “Regulation and Discipline in the Health Care Sector”, taking place in Toronto in April/May 2015. For more information about the program, please click here

Arlene O’Neill Led Business Law Program for Ryerson LPP

12/15/2014

Arlene O’Neill recently led the Business Law Program for Ryerson LPP with assistance from Alexander Eisenberg and Queenie Lo. Gardiner Roberts was the sole firm that wrote the course for this program, which was created by the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC).

In Pharmascience Inc. v. AstraZeneca Canada Inc. et al., 2014 FCA 133, the court overturned the trial decision prohibiting Pharmascience from obtaining marketing approval for its esomeprazole capsules. The court found that it was not enough to simply put a reference to a study in a patent to demonstrate utility. After reconsidering the evidence, the court concluded that AstraZeneca had not satisfied its onus in the proceeding to show that Pharmascience’s arguments as to the lack of utility of the claimed invention were not justified.